ICNC Summer Institute at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Top Tweet – The Dynamics of Civil Resistance

FSI participant, Dallia Abdelmoneim, captures a key conception of power from Jack’s presentation. In short, if the people do not obey, the ruler cannot rule. This consent-based theory of power lies at the foundation of nonviolent civil resistance and helps ordinary people recognize their capacity to spur social, political, and economic change.